Chinese New Year is really just around the corner. The Chinese will definitely be busy running errands to make sure that the Chinese New Year celebration is well prepared. Some may choose to start as early as a month before the celebration which also means the last month in the Lunar Calendar. This way, they get to plan things they need to have for the celebration and slowly distributing the tasks among the family members and then carry them out. Since Chinese New Year is the most important celebration among the Chinese, the celebration is always a grand one where family members gather around the house to eat, chat and play. Noises are definitely one thing that will not be missed during the celebration. If you are thinking Chinese New Year is only a day or two celebration or only over the weekend, then you are very wrong. The Chinese celebrate Chinese New Year for a full 15 days and 16 days if Chinese New Year Eve is counted. But it makes no different because the mood can be felt when shops started selling Chinese New Year goods, restaurant started promoting their Chinese New Year menu, the shopping malls started to have Chinese New Year performance. It is the festive season love by everyone. Lets get rolling on with the preparation needed for Chinese New Year. First in the list is the spring cleaning. Since Chinese New Year is also known as the Spring Festival, spring cleaning is normally used to indicate that the whole house must be thoroughly clean to usher in the brand new year. Every corner of the house will be clean and dust free. Old good that are not of use anymore will be thrown away or given out as second hand items. Take is as the yearly charity event for your family. When cleaning is done, decorate the house with the Chinese New Year decoration, the auspicious home decoration in order to bring your family a prosperous and well being year. The decorations can include paper cut outs, cut outs from red packet, red lanterns, prosperous orange tree, Spring...

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Background
The ChineseNewYear festival, also named as the Lunar NewYear festival, is based on the Lunar calendar. It starts with the New Moon on the first day of the NewYear and ends on the full moon on fifteen days later. The calendar is a combination of lunar and solar movement, so the ChineseNewYear falls on different day in each year. (ChineseNewYear Celebration, 2007) There is a legend behind this festival. It states that in a thousand of years ago, a cruel monster, Nien, eats people on the NewYears Eve. To prevent this from happening, every citizens stick red paper in front of the door, light up fires and set of firecrackers as Nien is afraid of red color, lights and noises. In the early next day, the Nien has kept away and people start celebrating. (History of ChineseNew...

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The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. In order to "catch up" with the solar calendar the Chinese insert an extra month once every few years (seven years out of a 19-yearcycle). This is the same as adding an extra day on leap year. This is why, according to the solar calendar, the ChineseNewYear falls on a different date each year.
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ChineseNewYearChineseNewYear is the most important festival of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China, it is known as "Spring Festival." People celebrate this day by enjoy the Dragon dances, Lion dances, fireworks, family gathering, family meal, visiting friends and relatives , giving red envelopes, and decorating with duilian(usually represented as two lines of poems that match together to wish people good luck and was hung on the wall of the front door). But for the unmarried young people, married couple, and the old people in the family, NewYear has different tasks and meanings for them.
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ChineseNewYear Food
ChineseNewYear Foods are very important to Chinese people. All family members come together to eat at this time. ChineseNewYear foods are not only delicious but it is traditional to eat certain foods over this festival. Chinese Dumplings, Fish, Spring Rolls, Nian Gao are usually seen as delicious and eaten at this time. Our China Food Tours offer some great dining experiences as well as not-to-missed sites of china.
Fish 鱼 /yoo/
In Chinese, Fish sounds like "save more". Chinese People always like save more money at the end of year because they think if they save more, they can make more in the next year.
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鱼跃龙门 (/yoo-youair long-mnn/): A fish leaping over the dragon gate — implying successful passing a competitive examination
Chinese Dumplings 饺子 /jyaoww-dzrr/
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...Preparations for the NewYear begin a couple of weeks before the big day. This is a fun time full of anticipation and joy as we get ready for the thrill and excitement of the celebrations. According to the traditions, this is the time to clean the house, prepare food for the feast and make banners and decorations special for the NewYear.
A clean house to welcome the NewYear
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ChineseNewYear is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China, it is also known as the Spring
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ChineseNewYear celebrations traditionally ran from ChineseNew Year's Day itself, the first day of the first month of the
Chinese calendar, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the
first month, making the festival the longest in the Chinese
calendar. Because the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, the ChineseNewYear is often referred to as the "Lunar NewYear".
The origin of ChineseNewYear is itself centuries old and gains
significance because of several myths and traditions.
Traditionally, the festival was a time to honor deities as well as
ancestors. ChineseNewYear is celebrated in countries and
territories with significant Chinese populations, including
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